Active Latin at Jesus College
Lumen Litterarum: MT3
Join us this Saturday, October 31, at 12:00 (BST) for a discussion of the Platonic solids and the geometry of the universe! The text will be Plato’s Timaeus. This is the third in our series of special topics seminars, Lumina Litterarum. The sessions are conducted in Latin. All are welcome! Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97717358355
Registration for Michaelmas classes now open!
Summer Schools are over!
Registration for summer schools is open!
Note on language classes
Thank you all for the incredible wave of interest in our classes! To ensure the best quality for everyone, we are capping our current language classes at 8 and thus have to temporarily stop accepting new students for our language classes (our reading classes remain open to everyone). We are excited to announce that we are developing plans to open…
Trinity Term Classes are on!
Here we are, back to a new term. We hope that you are all well and ready to start again, wherever you are. We are pleased to announce that our classes will continue online, starting today, via Zoom. We have decided to increase our offering of language classes for beginners (tirones) and intermediate students (provectiores) to offer even more language…
Latinitas at Jesus College
Varro’s History of Philosophy in Academica 1
In this post, I have condensed ‘Varro’s’ narrative of the history of philosophy from Academica I into outline form. I give the outline in Latin (sometimes lightly simplified, but quoting Cicero himself as much as possible), because it seems more useful to follow the narrative in its Ciceronian terms rather than in translation. Cicero’s Varro claims to be reporting the views…
